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Especially for the price it's an easy recommendation. If you want to spend $10-15 more bucks to expand and solidify your Avernus Adventure, pick this up.
There's a ton of resources, some guids to help walk through more confusing parts of the book, maps references.
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I've only partially through prepping the campaign, halfway through chapter 3, and I highly recommend this for anyone running descen into avernus. The short adventures are a nice bonus, but the chapter guides, Avernus as a sandbox, and especially the maps are fantastic. Some sections or encounters of the module won't even give you a map for an area, this takes care of that and then some. There are certainly other maps out there for the module, free and otherwise, but this bundle has it all, worth the $15 price tag!
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I was really astonished by the amount of information contained here. Every official campaign should have resources like this!
However - the Chapter 5 zip file is missing the PDF. Can that be added?
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I used this for my Baldur's Gate campaign and took my characters to level 20 with this supplement. Packed with tons of great encounters and DM hints.
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Great supplement book for Descent into Avernus. It fixes a lot of issues with this book and gives the DM a lot of useful information while running the game that. The best part of this product ist the running Avernus as a Sandbox supplement. This makes Avernus a lot of fun to run instead of just running your players through one of two linear adventures. The Bitter Rivals Adventure also fits in very nicely into the sandbox as a source for Soul Coins and information to point your players into the right direction. The monster stat blocks are also useful so you don't have to flip through the Monster Manual and have all the info for an encounter on one page.
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THIS IS NOT Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus. THIS IS ALL SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL
As someone who has purchased modules from DMsGuild before it was unclear that this "Complete DM's Bundle" was not actually a bundle with the module in it. "This bundle contains all published Eventyr Games DM's Resources for Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus." was the only statement that could be understood as making it clear this is not a copy of Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus. I did not realize Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus was not published by Eventyr Games. This is the first product that I purchased from this site that did not actually contain the module it was discussing. That being said the materials contained in this bundle are very good (in fact I was confused about why there were gaps in chapter 1 as I was able to follow along while preparing pretty easily and it took me a while to figure out that "Running Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus" was not actually the module). I don't believe that the publishers are trying to trick anyone, but I really wish this contained a "batteries not included" disclaimer.
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This was such a great help! Great breakdowns of different ways to run the campaign. Thee Avernus as a Sanbox file alone was worth the price. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!
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When they say "Complete" they mean it. Aside from the maps for every zone and extra encounters, I found the modifications to demons and devils extremely useful. Perfect for adding another level of difficulty and mystery for players who inherently know the monsters and their skills.
(Reviewed for online play)
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There's a lot to like here, and I've already used some of the tips that the book offers for the first session of Descent. The thing that I am most disappointed with here is that there are no printer-friendly versions of the maps. Honestly, this is deeply dissapointing given the focus in the description that the maps are printable for physical play. Most are solid colours, often very dark ones: while I'm glad those versions are there (they are high quality maps!), it's hard to make good use of them at a physical tabletop.
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Creator Reply: |
Hi Andrew!
Thank you so much for the kind words and the fair critique. We want to be as friendly to both online and offline play as possible. Could you perhaps elaborate on how you would want a printer-friendly map to look – perhaps even some examples? That would help us perhaps accommodate your wishes, if we can! You can send me an email at jvaleur@eventyrgames.com.
Thank you again for your review and your constructive criticism :)
Best regards,
J. A. Vaelru |
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I don't have much to say that hasn't been said already. I bought this exclusively for the maps so that's what I'll talk about.
The maps are great. The art is a nice balance between detailed and not too detailed for the DM to move some things around. There were one or two instances where an allegedly inanimate object comes to life and attacks the party but there are just as many instances of lifelike art and statues being just as they appear. I don't know how an artist would handle that without tipping off the players, so I don't fault them for it.
The grid measurements on the maps are an excellent touch.
Finally, having the monster blocks condensed and easily present has saved me a lot of flipping back and forth through my books.
This bundle has saved me a significant amount of time and energy.
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I'm currently running Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus and I own the DnDBeyond digital copy for the magic items/spells/etc that come with the book, a physical copy of the book, and before even researching bought the module for Roll20 for our online play. Purchasing the module for Roll20 was probably the worst mistake I've made in a LONG time! SKIP the Roll20 module if you can and get this guide and these maps instead! The guide is concise and the maps are absolutely more detailed than the "blueprints" if you will that come with the adventure!
The Complete DM's Bundle by Eventyr Games was one of the best DnD purchases I've ever made. It makes a fantastic suppliment whether your playing the game IRL or on a VTT. I highly recommend acquiring it if you are having issues streamlining your campaign, or want something easy to reference when making big decisions. I appreciate the depth and care they took when delving into the story and really made it easy to connect all of the dots of the adventure, both within an individual chapter and the overarching larger story.
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Creator Reply: |
Thank you so much for the kind words, Caterina, I'm really happy you got some good use out of it :)
J. A. Valeur
Eventyr Games |
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Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus is the first campaign I have ever run as a DM. While the campaign book on its own has a lot of good information, I felt like there were often large gaps in information or times where the book jumps too rapidly from point A to B. The DMs bundle fixed basically all the issues the campaign book posed for me as a new DM. Using the DMs bundle in addition to the campaign book lifted my game to a new level and even gave me ideas on how to be creative and come up with my own ideas.
The addition to the bundle on how to run the game like a sandbox also really opened up the adventure for me and my players. The information is so good and applicable, it has even taught me how to run a homebrew sandbox of my own in the future.
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i've read a few supplemental packages for other campaigns and this one is the best I've seen so far. The organization and the thought behind it has been very helpful.
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This is a fantastic product. my group uses this product on Astral Tabletop. This bundle is completely Plug and Play. The cheat sheets make dming this adventure easy and there is some optional ideas provided to give this adventure more depth. I cannot recommend this product enough.
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Due to Covid-19 had to go online with Roll20. This made it easy to supplement with what they had. If you have the time I prefer this over Roll20 package ($50!!!) Only down side is that I had to set up. This made it easy.
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